Grants for Expanding Civil Society Engagement in Open Governance Reforms and OGP Processes

Deadline: 09-Jul-21

The Open Government Partnership is pleased to announce a call for proposals for the Civil Society Engagement Grants to expand and strengthen civil society engagement and foster multi-stakeholder partnerships for tackling relevant open government reforms in active OGP member countries and locals in the EaP region, using the OGP platform.

The grants will be used for one of the following purposes:

• propose and implement catalytic approaches to open governance reforms and advocate for their inclusion as commitments in OGP action plans;
• co-implementation, monitoring and oversight of action plan commitments, ideally focusing on approaches that can be scalable across action plan cycles.

The grants will also be used to explicitly expand the base of civil society and other non-governmental actors engaging with OGP in the EaP countries and locals.

Strong preference will be given to ideas that engage new actors like the private sector, media, or youth groups.

Priority Areas

OGP is seeking proposals for strengthening civil society engagement in OGP around the following policy areas:

• Anti-corruption
• Justice
• Public service delivery, including strengthening citizen participation and feedback mechanisms, or enhancing government responsiveness to users for improving public services
• Civic space and media freedoms
• Business integrity and ease of doing business
• Any other themes related to COVID-19 Response, Recovery or Renewal

Funding Information

• Up to 30,000 EUR for 4-12 months of the implementation period.

Eligibility Criteria

• The call for this category of grants will be open to registered civil society organisations and consortia from Armenia, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. Preference will be given to multi-stakeholder teams. Cross-country partnerships are allowed.
• Applications are welcome from organisations not engaged with OGP at this time. However, applicants should be willing to work closely with the OGP Support Unit, the country’s OGP Multistakeholder Forum (Coordination Council) and the official Point of Contact. Applicants will also ideally engage the EU delegation in the country for relevant activities.
• Applicants should be willing to document and share their approaches, methodologies and outputs, and participate in OGP-organised peer exchange and learning events.

For more information, visit https://bit.ly/3A3hx0H